Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-19
SOME STATISTICS.
Scholastic Population In Southern States
Foreign Institutions ard Customs.

average monthly pay Of the men Wss
S39 81; CT the women, S23 90; youth OF
school age (5-I5) in 1880, G0,S99. Whole
expenditure for public schools in 1881 ),
56l3, 9q9.
Vermont, IN 1SS45, had SO men and
1896 women tesching in the pablo
schools. Average monthly pay Of male
teachers, S5l So; women, S2l.2S; youth
OF school aga (520), @, 462. Expendi-
| ture for public schools, S6lI sos.
In Connecticut, men teaching winter
schools, $40; women teaching winter
schools, PAP. Men teaching in summer,
$40; women teaching in summer, 2G25.
Average pay OF msie teachers, Sf9.lG;
sverage psy Of female teachers, @37 81
Children of school eye, l5IQ6S Ex-
penditures for public schools, 81, 852, 221;
cost OF su9erintendents of same, S29 on.
Louisiana has 2S6,O4S children of
scncol age-Gl8. Waite youths in pub
lie schools, 59,O52; coIored youths,
| 10000. White men teaching, 51S; white
women, 9lS; COlored men teach
ing, 4l9; celOred women, EOS; aver-
age Fay Of while men, So 50:
white women, S31.75. Monthly pay Of
colored men teaching, $50 Sc; average
pay Of col2red women, S2T50(?). EX-
penditures for public schools, $40, CSC
$20,2S7 less the previous yea-.
In Mississippi, 1854, white youths OF
school age CPD, 1855, 02G; color2d
youths OF school age, 259, Jos. Whites
enrolled N pubic ScnCols, l29 ,647; col
ored enrolled, l49, 373. Average daily at
tendance, white, s., 294 colored, 90 ,I27.
Number of men teaching, 39l7; women,
1889. Average monthly pay of teachers
| S3l.20. Whole expenditures for public
schools, S872, $50.
In Alabama, lSS4-85, whites Of school
age & 2D, 233,90I; coloreds 1852
Number OF teachers in public schools,
male, $780, female, 1856. Average an
nual pay of teachers, 500. 22-about
eighty-two school days in twelve months.
Expenditures for public schools, S872,-
500.
In the Indian Territory the five tribes
of Indians have eighty-four boarding
schools ard eighty-siZ day schools under
agency supervision, with en average a.
tendance Of e008; seven Indian trolning
schools, with IN average attendance IF
| 1926, and tWeuty-three other schools in
the states ard territories, with an ayers &c
attendance OF 10, all at cost CT $751;
27G 10 the government, besides large
amounts from friends of the red men in
the states and territories.
In the frozen and far-Cf region at
| Alaska there were, in 1870, II go chill
dren to be provided for il the Territory.
| The Commissioner q Education says:
| "The schools Of Alask2 h2va been started
| upon methods and principles specially
calculated 10 take the people as they sre,
or taeir sol, ia their climate and with
oil their Otner peculiar sourrcundings
and all their customs and give them the
| beneh. of instruction in the virtues of
our civilization before they are destroyed
by its vices. The people are sell sup
porting and teachsble, and should never
be set back by introducing destructive
features long ago admitted into our
policy OF treating the Indian.
In the original slave states and Dis
| triCl Of Columbus in IS84-S5 She scnoO!
| population was: White, 1915 $50; en-
rollment, 2,67G Sill. Colcred ecaooI pop
uIAuon, 2,O43, 696; enrolment, 1850, Sc {;
expenditures in education yearly for bOth
races, Si7,227,373.
Number Of normal schools reported TO
the Commissioner of Education in 1881
So, WAS 26S; number Of instructors, 2076 A;
number OF students, 55, lS5. The annual
appropriations by states and counties sre
in many instances very liberal. Illinois
appropriated in 1884, for the Southern
Illinois normal university, $2+,1O0; for
Cook county normal school the county
appropriated S25, 900.
The Indiana State Norm 81 School gets
| 500, 900 from the state. The State Nor
nal School of Michigan gets $50, 500. The
State Normal School of Missouri gets
S25, 600. Eight State Normal training
schools OF New York eech get $4,000
Three State Normal schools Of Wisconsin
ssget from Sl3,7S2 to $50, 900 respectively.
| The Dakota Normal School gets 1000
Austria has 407 technical industrial
schools, with 1898 teachers aud SO, l54
students. These schools are divided into
special schools for art and industry, build
tng, machinery, etc. drawing and review
schools, and schools for special subjects,
such as gOldsmiths' work, basket making,
woodworking, weaving, matchmaking,
glass working, etc.
France, with population of 81, 672, 048
in 1888, had 6,l11,23G children receiving
instruction, or l,524,S87 more than the
school population between six and thir
teen years OF age.
Primary instruction is compulsory fol
! CuLuLEu Vi UcLu HSACS IL IduCc, HUH
the beginning Of the seventh to the four
teenth year. Much attention is given t
industrial training and education il
France.
Germany has given more attention tc
industrial education than any other Euro
pean government. Compulsory education
is established in Germany. and we seldom
meet a Germsn who cannot read ant
write. Germany aims to muse intelli
gence into all Of her ndu5tries-agricul
ture, manufacturing, mining, forestry
stock breeding, ard gil of Ia
arts, and 70 make the nation sell
supporting. Her colleges end universl
ties sent out into the world complete
scholars andescientists, whose fame ig fs
milisr to ill nations. Germany has a
area of l20 ,289 square miles, and her pep
ulation numbers 27.132,4+9.
The system of national education i
Ireland is under the control Of commits
s;oners. They encourage industrial in
structioa in the national schools in a.
suitable cases. They require that il
stTuction shsll be given in plain needl
work in all schools in which femal
teachers are employed. They also awer
aid toward the payment Of teschers en
supply Of books and other school requ
sites, also toward building school
houses and providing suitsbl